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5:20Now PlayingDonald Trump has dropped out of any future virtual debate with Joe Biden. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
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Twenty-six days before the election, more than 6.3 million people have already voted, according to the United States Elections Project, and that number is ballooning by the day. In declaring Thursday he wouldn't do a remote debate, he's surrendering an opportunity, with an audience of tens millions, to turn around his campaign.
“I don’t see how he catches up to and passes [Joe] Biden without two more debates,” said Frank Luntz, the veteran Republican consultant and pollster. “While an online debate is clearly problematic, no debate at all is worse.”
Trump's reelection prospects are already precarious, at best. He is running behind Biden by nearly 10 percentage points nationally, and he has given up so much ground in battleground states that Biden is expanding the map into states that Trump was once expected to win comfortably, like Texas and Ohio.
Given that dynamic, Trump’s apparent withdrawal from next week’s contest mystified Democrats. Normally, a losing politician would be desperate to debate (Trump once pleaded for more of them), while the leading candidate would seek only to avoid a misstep. In removing a debate from the calendar, Trump is depriving himself of a chance to force Biden into a lapse.
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